Life
Rank Requirements

For the current requirements which became effective
on January 1, 2019, Click here.

Effective on January 1, 2018, the VARSITY SCOUT program
was discontinued by BSA.

Be active in your troop for at least six months as a Star Scout.

As a Star Scout, demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath
and Scout Law. Tell how you have done your duty to God and how you have
lived the Scout Law in your everyday life.

Earn five more merit badges (so that you have 11 in all), including
any three additional badges from the
required list for Eagle. You may
choose any of the 17 merit badges on the required list for Eagle to
fulfill this requirement. See Eagle
rank requirement #3 for this list.

Name of Merit Badge

Date Earned

(Eagle required)

_________________________

_________________________

(Eagle required)

_________________________

_________________________

(Eagle required)

_________________________

_________________________

_________________________

_________________________

_________________________

_________________________

While a Star Scout, participate in six hours of service through
one or more service projects
approved by your Scoutmaster. At least 3 hours of this service must
be conservation related.

While a Star Scout, serve actively in your troop for six months
in one or more of the following positions of responsibility (or carry
out a unit leader-assigned leadership project to help the troop):

While a Star Scout, use the Teaching EDGE method to teach another
Scout (preferably younger than you) the skills from ONE of the following
choices, so that he is prepared to pass those requirements to his Scoutmaster's
satisfaction.

Tenderfoot - 4a and 4b (first aid)

Second Class - 2b, 2c, and 2d (cooking/camping)

Second Class - 3a and 3d(navigation)

First Class - 3a, 3b, 3c, and 3d (tools)

First Class - 4a and 4b (navigation)

Second Class - 6a and 6b (first aid)

First Class - 7a and 7b (first aid)

Three requirements from one of the required Eagle merit badges,
as approved by your Scoutmaster.

While a Star Scout, participate in a Scoutmaster conference

Successfully complete your board of review for the Life rank.
10

NOTE:

For Venturers working on Boy Scout requirements, replace
"troop" with "crew" and "Scoutmaster" with "Crew Advisor."
For Sea Scouts working on Boy Scout requirements, replace "troop" with "ship"
and "Scoutmaster" with "Skipper."

9 Assistant patrol leader is not an approved
position of responsibility for the Star, Life, or Eagle rank.

10 If the board of review does not approve
the Scout’s advancement, the decision may be appealed in accordance with
Guide to Advancement, topic 8.0.4.0.

VENTURERS and SEA SCOUTS

The following additional requirements apply to boys registered in the
Venturing Program or as Sea Scouts.

Any male Venturer or Sea Scout who has achieved the First Class
rank as a Boy Scout in a troop may continue advancement toward Star,
Life and Eagle Scout ranks up to his 18th birthday.

He must meet the requirements as prescribed in the official Boy
Scout Handbook and the current Boy Scout Requirements book.

Blanks in this worksheets table appear
when we do not have a worksheet for the badge that includes these requirements.

NOTE: The footnote to Requirement 3 means that, for example,
a Scout can use both Lifesaving AND Emergency Preparedness, Environmental
Science AND Sustainability, and/or Swimming, Hiking, AND Cycling toward
the requirement of 3 more from the required list for Eagle when working
toward Life Scout.) Also note that the asterisks are specifically placed
on the lines marked "(Eagle required )" signifying that the note applies
to these badges. The Guide to Advancement explicitly states this:

7.0.4.5 Earning Eagle-Required Merit Badges for Star
or Life Rank
Candidates for Star or Life, in the selection of “any four” or “any
three,” respectively, of the merit badges required for Eagle, may choose
from all those listed, including where alternatives are available: Emergency
Preparedness OR Lifesaving; Cycling OR Hiking OR Swimming; and Environmental
Science OR Sustainability. For example, if a Scout earns Cycling, Hiking,
and Swimming, all three of them count as Eagle required for Life rank.
Only one, however, would serve toward the required merit badges for
the Eagle Scout rank. The other two would count toward the optional
merit badges required to make up the total of 21 merit badges.

Note that Star and Life requirements each allow two
non-Eagle-required merit badges. It is the Scout’s decision, however,
to earn more—or all—of his Star and Life badges from the Eagle-required
list.

Also note that Requirement 8 - (Successfully complete your
board of review for Life rank.) MAY be done AFTER the Scout has reached
age 18. All other requirements must be completed BEFORE the Scout's 18th
Birthday.

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